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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 24
HIGHER PERSONALITIES OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT
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ON UVERSA we divide all personalities and entities of
the Conjoint Creator into three grand divisions: the
Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit, the
Messenger Hosts of Space, and the Ministering Spirits of
Time, those spirit beings who are concerned with
teaching and ministering to the will creatures of the
ascendant scheme of mortal progression.
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Those Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit that
find mention in these narratives function throughout the
grand universe in seven divisions:
1. Solitary Messengers.
2. Universe Circuit Supervisors.
3. Census Directors.
4. Personal Aids of the Infinite Spirit.
5. Associate Inspectors.
6. Assigned Sentinels.
7. Graduate Guides.
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Solitary Messengers, Circuit Supervisors, Census
Directors, and the Personal Aids are characterized by
the possession of tremendous endowments of antigravity.
The Solitary Messengers are without known general
headquarters; they roam the universe of universes. The
Universe Circuit Supervisors and the Census Directors
maintain headquarters on the capitals of the
superuniverses. The Personal Aids of the Infinite Spirit
are stationed on the central Isle of Light. The
Associate Inspectors and the Assigned Sentinels are
respectively stationed on the capitals of the local
universes and on the capitals of their component
systems. The Graduate Guides are resident in the Havona
universe and function on all its billion worlds. Most of
these higher personalities have stations in the local
universes, but they are not organically attached to the
administrations of the evolutionary realms.
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Of the seven classes composing this group, only the
Solitary Messengers and perhaps the Personal Aids range
the universe of universes. Solitary Messengers are
encountered from Paradise outward: through the Havona
circuits to the superuniverse capitals and thence out
through the sectors and local universes, with their
subdivisions, and even to the inhabited worlds. Although
Solitary Messengers belong to the Higher Personalities
of the Infinite Spirit, their origin, nature, and
service have been discussed in the preceding paper.
1. THE UNIVERSE CIRCUIT SUPERVISORS
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The vast power currents of space and the circuits of
spirit energy may seem to operate automatically; they
may appear to function without let or hindrance, but
such is not the case. All these stupendous systems of
energy are under control; they are subject to
intelligent supervision. Universe Circuit Supervisors
are concerned, not with the realms of purely physical or
material energy -- the domain of the Universe Power
Directors -- but with the circuits of relative spiritual
energy and with those modified circuits which are
essential to the maintenance of both the highly
developed spiritual beings and the morontia or
transition type of intelligent creatures. The
supervisors do not give origin to circuits of energy and
superessence of divinity, but in general they have to do
with all higher spirit circuits of time and eternity and
with all relative spirit circuits concerned in the
administration of the component parts of the grand
universe. They direct and manipulate all such
spirit-energy circuits outside the Isle of Paradise.
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Universe Circuit Supervisors are the exclusive creation
of the Infinite Spirit, and they function solely as the
agents of the Conjoint Actor. They are personalized for
service in the following four orders:
1. Supreme Circuit Supervisors.
2. Associate Circuit Supervisors.
3. Secondary Circuit Supervisors.
4. Tertiary Circuit Supervisors.
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The supreme supervisors of Havona and the associate
supervisors of the seven superuniverses are of completed
numbers; no more of these orders are being created. The
supreme supervisors are seven in number and are
stationed on the pilot worlds of the seven Havona
circuits. The circuits of the seven superuniverses are
in the charge of a marvelous group of seven associate
supervisors, who maintain headquarters on the seven
Paradise spheres of the Infinite Spirit, the worlds of
the Seven Supreme Executives. From here they supervise
and direct the circuits of the superuniverses of space.
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On these Paradise spheres of the Spirit the seven
associate circuit supervisors and the first order of the
Supreme Power Centers effect a liaison which, under the
direction of the Supreme Executives, results in the
sub-Paradise co-ordination of all material and spiritual
circuits passing out to the seven superuniverses.
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On the headquarters worlds of each superuniverse are
stationed the secondary supervisors for the local
universes of time and space. The major and minor sectors
are administrative divisions of the supergovernments but
are not concerned in these matters of spirit-energy
supervision. I do not know how many secondary circuit
supervisors there are in the grand universe, but on
Uversa there are 84,691 of these beings. Secondary
supervisors are being created right along; from time to
time they appear in groups of seventy on the worlds of
the Supreme Executives. We obtain them on requisition as
we arrange for the establishment of separate circuits of
spirit energy and liaison power to the newly evolving
universes of our jurisdiction.
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A tertiary circuit supervisor functions on the
headquarters world of every local universe. This order,
like the secondary supervisors, is of continuous
creation, being created in groups of seven hundred. They
are assigned to the local universes by the Ancients of
Days.
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Circuit supervisors are created for their specific
tasks, and they eternally serve in the groups of their
original assignment. They are not rotated in service and
hence make an agelong study of the problems found in the
realms of their original assignment. For example:
Tertiary circuit supervisor No. 572,842 has functioned
on Salvington since the early concept of your local
universe, and he is a member of the personal staff of
Michael of Nebadon.
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Whether acting in the local or higher universes, circuit
supervisors direct all concerned as to the proper
circuits to employ for the transmission of all spirit
messages and for the transit of all personalities. In
their work of circuit supervision these efficient beings
utilize all agencies, forces, and personalities in the
universe of universes. They employ the unrevealed "high
spirit personalities of circuit control" and are ably
assisted by numerous staffs composed of personalities of
the Infinite Spirit. It is they who would isolate an
evolutionary world if its Planetary Prince should rebel
against the Universal Father and his vicegerent Son.
They are able to throw any world out of certain universe
circuits of the higher spiritual order, but they cannot
annul the material currents of the power directors.
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The Universe Circuit Supervisors have something of the
same relationship to spirit circuits that the Universe
Power Directors have to material circuits. The two
orders are complemental, together having the oversight
of all spirit and all material circuits that are
controllable and manipulatable by creatures.
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The circuit supervisors exercise certain oversight of
those mind circuits which are spirit associated much as
the power directors have certain jurisdiction over those
phases of mind which are physical-energy associated --
mechanical mind. In general the functions of each order
are expanded by liaison with the other, but the circuits
of pure mind are subject to the supervision of neither.
Neither are the two orders co-ordinate; in all their
manifold labors the Universe Circuit Supervisors are
subject to the Seven Supreme Power Directors and their
subordinates.
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While the circuit supervisors are entirely alike within
their respective orders, they are all distinct
individuals. They are truly personal beings, but they
possess a type of other-than-Father-endowed personality
not encountered in any other type of creature in all
universal existence.
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Although you will recognize and know them as you journey
inward towards Paradise, you will have no personal
relations with them. They are circuit supervisors, and
they attend strictly and efficiently to their business.
They deal solely with those personalities and entities
having the oversight of those activities which are
concerned with the circuits subject to their
supervision.
2. THE CENSUS DIRECTORS
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Notwithstanding that the cosmic mind of the Universal
Intelligence is cognizant of the presence and
whereabouts of all
thinking
creatures, there is operative in the universe of
universes an independent method of keeping count of all
will
creatures.
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The Census Directors are a special and completed
creation of the Infinite Spirit, and they exist in
numbers unknown to us. They are so created as to be able
to maintain perfect synchrony with the reflectivity
technique of the superuniverses, while at the same time
they are personally sensitive and responsive to
intelligent will.
These directors, by a not-fully-understood technique,
are made immediately aware of the birth of will in any
part of the grand universe. They are, therefore, always
competent to give us the number, nature, and whereabouts
of all will creatures in any part of the central
creation and the seven superuniverses. But they do not
function on Paradise; there is no need for them there.
On Paradise knowledge is inherent; the Deities know all
things.
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Seven Census Directors operate in Havona, one being
stationed on the pilot world of each Havona circuit.
Excepting these seven and the reserves of the order on
the Paradise worlds of the Spirit, all Census Directors
function under the jurisdiction of the Ancients of Days.
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One Census Director presides at the headquarters of each
superuniverse, while subject to such a chief director
are thousands upon thousands, one on the capital of
every local universe. All personalities of this order
are equal excepting those on the Havona pilot worlds and
the seven superuniverse chiefs.
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In the seventh superuniverse there are one hundred
thousand Census Directors. And this number consists
entirely of those assignable to local universes; it does
not include the personal staff of Usatia, the
superuniverse chief of all Orvonton directors. Usatia,
like the other superuniverse chiefs, is not directly
attuned to the registration of intelligent will. He is
solely attuned to his subordinates stationed in the
Orvonton universes; thus he acts as a magnificent
totaling personality for their reports coming in from
the capitals of the local creations.
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From time to time the official recorders of Uversa place
on their records the status of the superuniverse as it
is indicated by the registrations in and upon the
personality of Usatia. Such census data is indigenous to
the superuniverses; these reports are transmitted
neither to Havona nor to Paradise.
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The Census Directors are concerned with human beings --
as with other will creatures -- only to the extent of
recording the fact of will function. They are not
concerned with the records of your life and its doings;
they are not in any sense recording personalities. The
Census Director of Nebadon, number 81,412 of Orvonton,
now stationed on Salvington, is at this very moment
personally conscious and aware of your living presence
here on Urantia; and he will afford the records
confirmation of your death the moment you cease to
function as a will creature.
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Census Directors register the existence of a new will
creature when the first act of will is performed; they
indicate the death of a will creature when the last act
of will takes place. The partial emergence of will
observed in the reactions of certain of the higher
animals does not belong to the domain of the Census
Directors. They keep count of nothing but bona fide will
creatures, and they are responsive to nothing but
will function.
Exactly how they register the function of will, we do
not know.
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These beings always have been, and always will be,
Census Directors. They would be comparatively useless in
any other division of universe labor. But they are
infallible in function; they never default, neither do
they falsify. And notwithstanding their marvelous powers
and unbelievable prerogatives, they are persons; they
have recognizable spirit presence and form.
3. PERSONAL AIDS OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT
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We have no authentic knowledge as to the time or manner
of the creation of the Personal Aids. Their number must
be legion, but it is not of record on Uversa. From
conservative deductions based on our knowledge of their
work, I venture to estimate that their number extends
high into the trillions. We hold the opinion that the
Infinite Spirit is not limited as to numbers in the
creation of these Personal Aids.
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The Personal Aids of the Infinite Spirit exist for the
exclusive assistance of the Paradise presence of the
Third Person of Deity. Although attached directly to the
Infinite Spirit and located on Paradise, they flash to
and fro to the uttermost parts of creation. Wherever the
circuits of the Conjoint Creator extend, there these
Personal Aids may appear for the purpose of executing
the bidding of the Infinite Spirit. They traverse space
much as do the Solitary Messengers but are not persons
in the sense that the messengers are.
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The Personal Aids are all equal and identical; they
disclose no differentiation of individuality. Though the
Conjoint Actor looks upon them as true personalities, it
is difficult for others to regard them as real persons;
they do not manifest a spirit presence to other spirit
beings. Paradise-origin beings are always aware of the
proximity of these Aids; but we do not recognize a
personality presence. The lack of such a presence-form
undoubtedly renders them all the more serviceable to the
Third Person of Deity.
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Of all the revealed orders of spirit beings taking
origin in the Infinite Spirit, the Personal Aids are
about the only ones you will not encounter on your
inward ascent to Paradise.
4. THE ASSOCIATE INSPECTORS
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The Seven Supreme Executives, on the seven Paradise
spheres of the Infinite Spirit, collectively function as
the administrative board of supermanagers for the seven
superuniverses. The Associate Inspectors are the
personal embodiment of the authority of the Supreme
Executives to the local universes of time and space.
These high observers of the affairs of the local
creations are the joint offspring of the Infinite Spirit
and the Seven Master Spirits of Paradise. In the near
times of eternity seven hundred thousand were
personalized, and their reserve corps abides on
Paradise.
24:4.2
Associate Inspectors work under the direct supervision
of the Seven Supreme Executives, being their personal
and powerful representatives to the local universes of
time and space. An inspector is stationed on the
headquarters sphere of each local creation and is a
close associate of the resident Union of Days.
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The Associate Inspectors receive reports and
recommendations only from their subordinates, the
Assigned Sentinels, stationed on the capitals of the
local systems of inhabited worlds, while they make
reports only to their immediate superior, the Supreme
Executive of the superuniverse concerned.
5. THE ASSIGNED SENTINELS
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The Assigned Sentinels are co-ordinating personalities
and liaison representatives of the Seven Supreme
Executives. They were personalized on Paradise by the
Infinite Spirit and were created for the specific
purposes of their assignment. They are of stationary
numbers, and there are exactly seven billion in
existence.
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Much as an Associate Inspector represents the Seven
Supreme Executives to a whole local universe, so in each
of the ten thousand systems of that local creation there
is an Assigned Sentinel, who acts as the direct
representative of the far-distant and supreme board of
supercontrol for the affairs of all seven
superuniverses. The sentinels on duty in the local
system governments of Orvonton are acting under the
direct authority of Supreme Executive Number Seven, the
co-ordinator of the seventh superuniverse. But in their
administrative organization all sentinels commissioned
in a local universe are subordinate to the Associate
Inspector stationed at universe headquarters.
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Within a local creation the Assigned Sentinels serve in
rotation, being transferred from system to system. They
are usually changed every millennium of local universe
time. They are among the highest ranking personalities
stationed on a system capital, but they never
participate in deliberations concerned with system
affairs. In the local systems they serve as the ex
officio heads of the four and twenty administrators
hailing from the evolutionary worlds, but otherwise,
ascending mortals have little contact with them. The
sentinels are almost exclusively concerned in keeping
the Associate Inspector of their universe fully informed
on all matters relating to the welfare and state of the
systems of their assignment.
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Assigned Sentinels and Associate Inspectors do not
report to the Supreme Executives through a superuniverse
headquarters. They are responsible solely to the Supreme
Executive of the superuniverse concerned; their
activities are distinct from the administration of the
Ancients of Days.
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The Supreme Executives, Associate Inspectors, and
Assigned Sentinels, together with the omniaphim and a
host of unrevealed personalities, constitute an
efficient, direct, centralized, but far-flung system of
advisory and administrative co-ordination of all the
grand universe of things and beings.
6. THE GRADUATE GUIDES
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The Graduate Guides, as a group, sponsor and conduct the
high university of technical instruction and spiritual
training which is so essential to mortal attainment of
the goal of the ages: God, rest, and then eternity of
perfected service. These highly personal beings take
their name from the nature and purpose of their work.
They are exclusively devoted to the tasks of guiding the
mortal graduates from the superuniverses of time through
the Havona course of instruction and training which
serves to prepare the ascending pilgrims for admission
to Paradise and the Corps of the Finality.
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I am not forbidden to undertake to tell you of the work
of these Graduate Guides, but it is so ultraspiritual
that I despair of being able to adequately portray to
the material mind a concept of their manifold
activities. On the mansion worlds, after your vision
range is extended and you are freed from the fetters of
material comparisons, you can begin to comprehend the
meaning of those realities which "eye cannot see nor ear
hear, and which have never entered the concept of human
minds," even those things which "God has prepared for
those who love such eternal verities." You are not
always to be so limited in the range of your vision and
spiritual comprehension.
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The Graduate Guides are engaged in piloting the pilgrims
of time through the seven circuits of Havona worlds. The
guide who greets you upon your arrival on the receiving
world of the outer Havona circuit will remain with you
throughout your entire career on the heavenly circuits.
Though you will associate with countless other
personalities during your sojourn on a billion worlds,
your Graduate Guide will follow you to the end of your
Havona progression and will witness your entrance into
the terminal slumber of time, the sleep of eternity
transit to the Paradise goal, where, upon awakening, you
will be greeted by the Paradise Companion assigned to
welcome you and perhaps to remain with you until you are
initiated as a member of the Mortal Corps of the
Finality.
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The number of Graduate Guides is beyond the power of
human minds to grasp, and they continue to appear. Their
origin is something of a mystery. They have not existed
from eternity; they mysteriously appear as they are
needed. There is no record of a Graduate Guide in all
the realms of the central universe until that
far-distant day when the first mortal pilgrim of all
time made his way to the outer belt of the central
creation. The instant he arrived on the pilot world of
the outer circuit, he was met with friendly greetings by
Malvorian, the first of the Graduate Guides and now the
chief of their supreme council and the director of their
vast educational organization.
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On the Paradise records of Havona, in the section
denominated "Graduate Guides," there appears this
initial entry:
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"And Malvorian, the first of this order, did greet and
instruct the pilgrim discoverer of Havona and did
conduct him from the outer circuits of initial
experience, step by step and circuit by circuit, until
he stood in the very presence of the Source and Destiny
of all personality, subsequently crossing the threshold
of eternity to Paradise."
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At that far-distant time I was attached to the service
of the Ancients of Days on Uversa, and we all rejoiced
in the assurance that, eventually, pilgrims from our
superuniverse would reach Havona. For ages we had been
taught that the evolutionary creatures of space would
attain Paradise, and the thrill of all time swept
through the heavenly courts when the first pilgrim
actually arrived.
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The name of this pilgrim discoverer of Havona is
Grandfanda,
and he hailed from planet 341 of system 84 in
constellation 62 of local universe 1,131 situated in
superuniverse number one. His arrival was the signal for
the establishment of the broadcast service of the
universe of universes. Theretofore only the broadcasts
of the superuniverses and the local universes had been
in operation, but the announcement of the arrival of
Grandfanda at the portals of Havona signalized the
inauguration of the "space reports of glory," so named
because the initial universe broadcast reported the
Havona arrival of the first of the evolutionary beings
to attain entrance upon the goal of ascendant existence.
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Graduate Guides never leave the Havona worlds; they are
dedicated to the service of the graduate pilgrims of
time and space. And you will sometime meet these noble
beings face to face if you do not reject the certain and
all-perfected plan designed to effect your survival and
ascension.
7. ORIGIN OF THE GRADUATE GUIDES
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Though evolution is not the order of the central
universe, we believe that the Graduate Guides are the
perfected or more experienced members of another order
of central universe creatures, the Havona Servitals.
Graduate Guides show such a breadth of sympathy and such
a capacity for understanding the ascendant creatures
that we are convinced they have gained this culture by
actual service in the superuniverse realms as the Havona
Servitals of universal ministry. If this view is not
correct, how then can we account for the continuous
disappearance of the senior or more experienced
servitals?
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A servital will be long absent from Havona on
superuniverse assignment, having been on many such
missions previously, will return home, be granted the
privilege of "personal contact" with the Paradise
Central Shining, will be embraced by the Luminous
Persons, and disappear from the recognition of his
spirit fellows, never more to reappear among those of
his kind.
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On returning from superuniverse service, a Havona
Servital may enjoy numerous divine embraces and emerge
therefrom merely an exalted servital. Experiencing the
luminous embrace does not necessarily signify that the
servital must translate into a Graduate Guide, but
almost one quarter of those who achieve the divine
embrace never return to the service of the realms.
24:7.4
There appears on the high records a succession of such
entries as this:
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"And servital number 842,842,682,846,782 of Havona,
named Sudna, came over from the superuniverse service,
was received on Paradise, knew the Father, entered the
divine embrace, and is not."
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When such an entry appears on the records, the career of
such a servital is closed. But in just three moments (a
little less than three days of your time) a newborn
Graduate Guide "spontaneously" appears on the outer
circuit of the Havona universe. And the number of
Graduate Guides, allowing for a slight difference, due
no doubt to those in transition, exactly equals the
number of vanished servitals.
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There is an additional reason for supposing the Graduate
Guides to be evolved Havona Servitals, and that is the
unfailing tendency of these guides and their associated
servitals to form such extraordinary attachments. The
manner in which these supposedly separate orders of
beings understand and sympathize with one another is
wholly inexplicable. It is refreshing and inspiring to
witness their mutual devotion.
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The Seven Master Spirits and the associated Seven
Supreme Power Directors, respectively, are the personal
repositories of the mind potential and of the power
potential of the Supreme Being which he does not, as
yet, operate personally. And when these Paradise
associates collaborate to create the Havona Servitals,
the latter are inherently involved in certain phases of
Supremacy. Havona Servitals are thus, in actuality, a
reflection in the perfect central universe of certain
evolutionary potentialities of the time-space domains,
all of which is disclosed when a servital undergoes
transformation and re-creation. We believe that this
transformation takes place in response to the will of
the Infinite Spirit, undoubtedly acting in behalf of the
Supreme. Graduate Guides are not created by the Supreme
Being, but we all conjecture that experiential Deity is
in some way concerned in those transactions which bring
these beings into existence.
24:7.9
The Havona now traversed by ascending mortals differs in
many respects from the central universe as it was before
the times of Grandfanda. The arrival of mortal ascenders
on the Havona circuits inaugurated sweeping
modifications in the organization of the central and
divine creation, modifications undoubtedly initiated by
the Supreme Being -- the God of evolutionary creatures
-- in response to the arrival of the first of his
experiential children from the seven superuniverses. The
appearance of the Graduate Guides, together with the
creation of the tertiary supernaphim, is indicative of
these performances of God the Supreme.
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Presented by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.
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